Re: patching for 2010-002: I feel like an idiot, but this isn't working

[Anne Bennett <anne%porcupine.montreal.qc.ca@localhost>]

On Fri, 12 Mar 2010, Greg Troxel wrote:

> > I just discovered "Chapter 33. Updating
> > an existing system from sources" in "The NetBSD guide".

> Also, you may or may not find it useful to install
> pkgsrc/sysutils/etcmanage.

By some interesting coincidence, the arrival of your message
caused a beep exactly as I was reading its DESCR file.  :-)

> I use this to update systems along netbsd-5 all the time.  It also lets
> me build on one system and install on another.

It may turn out to be be overkill for me, but I have a note
to compare it to plain "etcupdate".  Thank you.

I have updated my src and xsrc from netbsd-5, and have
carefully prepared, after much reading, an appropriate version
of the "update recipe" from chapter 33, along with a bunch of
questions, most of which I can safely answer by playing with
the commands.  I have two small questions about the "install"
phase, though, that might be appropriate to ask here:

  In "./build.sh [...] install=/"

  (a) Do I need to specify "-x" to have X updated/installed too?
  (b) Why doesn't the example in chapter 33 use "-u" to make sure
      that MKUPDATE=yes is set so that we don't unnecessarily
      replace unchanged files?  Or am I misunderstanding the use
      of "-u" in the context of "install"?

Anne.